Human and Economic Geography
Human features of places: cities, towns, villages, ports, factories and farms; types of settlement and land use; economic activity and trade links; how natural resources such as energy, food, minerals and water are spread around the world
What a learner can do afterwards
- Use terms for human features correctly when describing places (e.g., port, harbour, factory, office)
- Describe land use in an area from a map or a walk (e.g., housing, farming, industry, shops)
- Explain a trade link or resource pattern (e.g., 'oil comes from a few places, so tankers carry it around the world')
The lesson
Every place has natural features, like rivers and hills, and human features, things people built. Human features include ports, factories, farms, shops, offices and homes.
Land use means how people use the ground in an area. Look at a map or take a walk, and you can sort the land into groups: housing, farming, industry and shops.
Mia visits a busy port near her home. She sees cranes lifting containers onto huge ships. The port sends food grown nearby to other countries, and ships bring back oil and metal that her country does not have enough of.
On your next walk or car ride, look for clues. A tall chimney often means a factory. Fields and greenhouses mean farming. Cranes and containers mean a port.
Places have human features like ports and factories, land is used in different ways, and trade moves resources such as food, oil and minerals around the world.
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Where it sits
Learn first
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Where this leads
Jobs that lean on this skill. Follow one to see everything it is built on.
8 questions wait behind this lesson, each with its answer explained. Every answer feeds the sky: stars light as they are learned, and dim when it is time to come back.